Word: west
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...results of the important outside baseball games played yesterday were as follows: West Point 3, Yale 0; Princeton 2, Trinity 0; Dartmouth 6, Bowdoin 0; Pennsylvania 6, West Virginia 0; Colby 10, Holy Cross 7; Brown 4, Lafayette 3; Vermont 4, Maine...
...representation is proportionately small-unfortunately so-and it is a poor encouragement to western students when their vacation privileges are restricted out of all proportion to those of men living in this locality. At Christmas time it is customary to make some allowance by which men of the middle west are able to reach home on the first day of vacation. But at the Easter recess residents of St. Louis, Cleveland, and Chicago and men from points farther west, must arrive home 20, or more, hours late for their all too brief rest from College duties...
There are many good reasons why the strict registration requirements should be maintained, but it should, nevertheless, be borne in mind that this necessitates an equal loss of time to residents of the west at the end of vacation; and when the recess has been thus curtailed at both ends, the time spent at home is, for many, not worth the journey...
...through that trial well. After graduating from the Scientific School, he entered the coast survey, and presently turned up in California, where he lived for some time. He had originally meant to be a civil engineer and to go onto some of the railroads, thinking the west a great field, but he inevitably drifted into his father's interests, came home in the autumn of 1860, was engaged to be married to Miss Anna Russell, and was married in November of that year...
...writings, which consist of pamphlets upon scientific subjects, particularly marine zoology, the results of his expeditions to the West Indies and to the Pacific Ocean, contributions to scientific periodicals, and reports of scientific bodies, are numerous and cover all branches of natural history. He is the joint author with his stepmother, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Agassiz, of the fifth volume of "Contributions to the Natural History of the United States," which was left un-finished by his father, "Seaside Studies in Natural History," and "Marine Animals of Massachusetts...